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System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. PostGIS vs. Riak KV

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

postgis.net

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

postgis.net/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2018

2014

2005

2009

Current release

0.8, December 2018

3.4.2, February 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes, using Riak Security

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